The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four ...

Opal Lee is known to many as "Grandmother of Juneteenth”. In an unfortunate turn of events, Lee will not be able to participate in this year’s walk for freedom as the 98-year-old was recently ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through Galveston, Texas, with the message that enslaved people were free.

Uncover the role of architecture in commemorating Juneteenth, with museums dedicated to African American stories and cultural ...

Claims that no progress on racial equity has been made in the eight decades since Opal Lee graduated from I.M. Terrell are ...

Dating back to 1867, when the Freedmen’s Bureau organized the first parade, picnic, and festival in Austin, there has been a celebration of Juneteenth in the historically African American Eastside ...

Juneteenth – which was recognised as a federal holiday in 2021 – now more widely represents the emancipation of enslaved ...

Despite the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle or sharply cut back on U.S. government-run news outlets like Voice of America, two Persian-language services have been called into duty to repor ...

For generations, African American cotillions' traditions affected the social, cultural, and philanthropic landscape of the U.S.

Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday in the United States, is the latest example of political controversy in polarizing times.